SixtyEight Art Institute Copenhagen is excited to invite our audience to a three-day workshop organized by The BodyBuilding Project. Scheduled between November 11th and 13th, the members of the project will organize a participatory event/workshop in order to investigate and activate the notion of ‘emergent economies’ by focusing on questions of excess and waste in urban surroundings. (read more)

On the first workshop, Friday November 11th, the group will introduce the topic with the help of preliminary exercises and shared discussions. Saturday November 12th will be dedicated to a practice session that moves through various locations in central Copenhagen; during the session, the participants will develop ways of noticing and taking part in the emergent economies at play on these sites. On Sunday the 13th, their findings will be shared with the public in the form of a two-hour discussion held at SixtyEight Art Institute.

The event is open to anyone and does not require any prior knowledge or a background of a certain kind. However, the participants are expected to commit to the event for the first two days; participation in the public discussion is voluntary.

In April 2016 Fabian Hammerl was invited to hold two lectures and a workshop at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts and the Shanghai Art & Design Academy, China. In his talk “Identity in public urban space – from a photographer’s perspective“ he described how urban space is formed by conflicting individual desires and practical needs creating an ever-changing spatial identity, and how this identity can be depicted, by example of his own photographic work.
The second lecture’s title, “Let the picture take care of itself!“, a slightly altered quote by photographer Garry Winogrand, calling to put aside forejudgement in creative processes, is encouraging the students to embrace chance and unforeseen encounter, while the photographic workshop took them on a Dérive-inspired trip based on purposefully transposed maps of their habitual environment, celebrating failure as a starting point for artistic exploration.

Opening on Friday, August 7 at 7 p.m. at Frappant, Hamburg
The second exhibition showing works by artists of the international “Interchange and Commentary” project in Hamburg will open on Friday, August 7 at 7 p.m. at Frappant in Hamburg Altona.
Opening hours: Saturday–Sunday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Finissage August 16 from 3 p.m.

Opening on Saturday, 1st of August from 4 p.m. at Artville Festival, Hamburg Wilhelmsburg

Installation shot showing works by Deng Dafei and Fabian Hammerl

The international “Interchange and Commentary” project is bringing together artists from China and Germany since 2013. After collaborations and exhibitions in Hamburg and Chengdu/China, the project was invited to join this year’s Artville Festivalin Hamburg Wilhelmsburg, as well as for an exhibition at Frappant gallery in Hamburg Altona.
While at Artville the group will show a collaborative installation of all artists in two adjoining cubes, the exhibition at Frappant will present the artists’ positions individually.
Participating artists in 2015 are: Nir Alon | DENG Dafei + HE Jinwei (Asia Scene) | Fabian Hammerl | Naho Kawabe | LIU Yi | Dagmar Rauwald | WEI Yan | Curated by Stephanie Fenner and Dagmar Rauwald, with support from Jody Huang, China.

‘Can I ask you a personal question‘
Artist workshop and group show at the Art Museum of Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, presenting the work of 9 Chinese and German artists.
The exhibition is part of an ongoing process of communication and collaboration between artists from China and Germany, its title referring to the concept of posing personal questions and answering them with artistic means, used during the project.
Fabian Hammerl will show photographs taken in China and Japan in 2013 and 2014.

The opening will be on September 29th, 3 p.m at the Art Museum of Sichuan University. The exhibition shows until Oktober 12th.

On September 27 A4 Contemporary Arts Centre in Chengdu, China will host an artist talk about Eastern and Western artistic concepts in contemporary photography, called “The West is not bright, the East can be bright”.
The talk, initiated by the Chinese curator Yi Hong, will give opportunity to Chinese artists Mu Ge and Zhang Jin, the curator Xu Sheng, the American artist Oliver Herring, and the German photographer Fabian Hammerl to debate the presence of specifically Eastern/Western concepts in their work.

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Default Network was founded in 2010 by four friends welded together by years of hedonistic commuting between Hamburg and Copenhagen. Fabian Hammerl and Kathrine Uldbaek Nielsen exhaust themselves catching girls and boys on film, Christopher Sand-Iversen pens stories of both innocence and iniquity and is also to be caught red-handed with a camera, while Helena Hauff multiplies clubland's Dionysia with her Diophantine DJ sets. In 2013 longtime companion Kasper Sørensen has joined the network, a builder and landscape architect putting together structures of incipient nature.